In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who tried to overhaul the American military. By James Santel He advised three ...
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has died at age 93. During his tenure under Presidents John. F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he was notable for his role in the escalation of the Vietnam War ...
On April 30, 1975, the most divisive war in American history came to an end. Or so we thought at the time. The war's painful schisms were personal for me. I am the son of the late Robert S. McNamara, ...
Nearly all of the voluminous commentary on the death of Robert McNamara has focused on his conduct of the Vietnam war. This is as inevitable as it is natural. Vietnam was not merely McNamara’s ...
He turned around Ford Motor Company and tried to help the world's poor as head of the World Bank. Yet, for many critics of the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara's legacy will be as the symbol of a failed ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in Cabinet Room meeting. Credit: Yoichi Okamoto/U.S. National Archives and Records Administration A few months ago I had one of my ...
He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case. By Richard Goldstein In ...
Even before Robert S. McNamara left the Pentagon in early 1968, this man of absolute certainties about almost everything had begun to have nagging doubts about the Vietnam War, about what was widely ...
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